The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

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It should be mentioned that the dance games for Kinect are good party games, but that's not what we have in mind around these parts when we talk about video games. Same goes for the pet thing... Kinectimals?
 
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They're clearly bringing Fantasia back up. That is pretty revolutionary on Kinect use.
 
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kinect penis attachment + final fantasy: the vagina within announced
xbox one sells 100m units

co-op for bro mode
 
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Infamous Second Son is the reason I bought a PS4 so I'm very pleased to see early reports giving it high praise.

Had to get the collectors edition for the Cole stuff, I'm still bitter he isn't in the new one
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About this decline of console games: the latest Tomb Raider is on track to become the most sold title in the serie...
 
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On the note of PS+ and Tomb Raider though - if the sales of TR have picked up how many does the PS+ "freebies" count towards that since it's one.
 
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It definitely counts toward square-enix's revenue (which, for this title, ended up being higher than initially forecast), but it probably affects the unit count also, though it is hard to know how much. What is credited as the key for the success of the title as far as units go was the creation of the PS4 and XB1 versions.
 
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Once again, I don't have any reason to lie. This is via the Kinect team, so it could be a huge fucking flop. Who knows, but maybe there's hope for us not counting pixels.

They're also pretty excited about Titanfall.


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I'm confused, is that an unintentional joke about the low resolution of games on the xbone?

TITANFALL: NOW IN 240p!
 
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The Console Market Is In Crisis | TechCrunch

A few days ago Sony announced it has now sold a total of 6 million PlayStation 4 consoles. Microsoft's next-gen equivalent, the Xbox One, has likely racked up sales of around 4 million so far. Both flagship consoles were released around the same time in late November last year, in time for the 2013 holiday season. And both companies have been shouting loudly about who's beating whom for cumulative console and games sales globally and in key markets like the U.S.

On the cumulative console sales score at least, Sony's PS4 appears to be edging out the Xbone, for now.

The thing is neither of these new generation console flagships is selling very well when compared with previous generations of flagship consoles.The console market appears to be shrinking significantly - and that's evidently having a knock-on impact on games studios and game development.The big games studios don't exclusively develop for a single platform, after all, so the health of the entire market is key to keeping games studios in business.
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Whilst the casuals are moving to mobile/web, the high end enthusiasts are moving to PC where games are better looking. The traditional consoles are caught in a pincer movement.
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Here's NPD's official data on console market sales inNorth America for January 2007 - i.e. after the last generation of flagship consoles launched back in the2006holiday season:

Wii: 436,000
360: 294,000
PS3: 244,000
PS2: 299,000
NDS: 239,000
PSP: 211,000
GBA: 179,000
GC: 34,000
Add those numbers up and the total sales figure isjust shy of 2 million.
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Now here's an equivalent list of sales for consolesthis January(not an official list, since as noted above much of this data is not being officially released, but rather these figures are drawn from leaked NPD subscriber data - with further caveats being that NPD doesn't like subscribers leaking its data so releases slightly different figures to try to identify leakers, hence the lack of concrete numbers for certain consoles):

PS4: 271,000
XB1: 141,000
3DS: ~97,000
PS3: ~53,500
Wii U: ~49,000
360: ~48,500
Vita: ~17,000

Add the January 2014 figures up and the tally is closer to700,000.So that's 2 million vs. ~700K- a very big market contraction, even if some of those sales figures are underestimates.
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It's not good to be blind to the evidence in front of you.
 
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How is it baseless if they are actual numbers? Do you even know what baseless means? I'm glad one system is selling compared to last gen launch when all 3 were selling. I guess that's something? I don't think it's progress though.
 
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That article also states that XB1 sales look bad compared to it's 360 sales. What?

INB4 "WOMAN MATHZ ARTICLE"
 
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